Jeffrey Girard

Assistant Professor
Investigator, Life Span Institute

Contact Info

jmgirard@ku.edu

Fraser Hall, Room 454
1415 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045-7594

Jeffrey M. Girard, PhD Jeffrey M. Girard, PhD

Biography —

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Research Areas: Clinical Psychology. I study how emotions are expressed through verbal and nonverbal behavior, as well as how interpersonal communication is infuluenced by individual differences (e.g., personality and mental health) and social factors (e.g., culture and context). This work is deeply interdisciplinary and draws insights and tools from various areas of social science, computer science, statistics, and medicine. Current research projects focus on identifying patterns of expressive behavior related to depression, PTSD, and psychosis.

Teaching

Teaching Interests

Statistics and Machine Learning
Data Science and Programming
Research Methods and Practices
Psychological and Clinical Assessment
Personality and Psychopathology

Research

Research Interests

Emotion
Communication
Nonverbal Behavior
Affective Computing
Technology in Psychology

Selected Publications —

Girard, J.M., Shandar, G., Liu, Z., Cohn, J.F., Yin, L., & Morency, L.P. (2019). Reconsidering the Duchenne smile: Indicator of positive emotion or artifact of smile intensity? Proceedings of the AAAC International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction.
McDuff, D. & Girard, J.M. (2019). Democratizing psychological insights from analysis of nonverbal behavior. Proceedings of the AAAC International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction.
Girard, J.M. & Wright, A.G.C. (2018). DARMA: Software for dual axis rating and media annotation. Behavior Research Methods. 50(3), 902–909.
Girard, J.M., Wright, A.G.C., Beeney, J.E., Scott, L.N., Lazarus, S.A., Stepp, S.D., & Pilkonis, P.A. (2017). Interpersonal problems across levels of the psychopathology hierarchy. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 79, 53–69.
McDuff, D., Girard, J.M., & el Kaliouby, R. (2017). Large-scale observational evidence of cross-cultural differences in facial behavior. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 41(1), 1–19.
Girard, J.M. & Cohn, J.F. (2016). A primer on observational measurement. Assessment. 23(4), 404–413.
Girard, J.M., Cohn, J.F., Jeni, L.A., Sayette, M.A., & De la Torre, F. (2015). Spontaneous facial expression in unscripted social interactions can be measured automatically. Behavior Research Methods. 47(4), 1136–1147.
Girard, J.M., Cohn, J.F., & De la Torre, F. (2015). Estimating smile intensity: A better way. Pattern Recognition Letters. 66, 13–21.
Girard, J.M. & Cohn, J.F. (2015). Automated audiovisual depression analysis. Current Opinion in Psychology, 4, 75–79.
Girard, J.M., Cohn, J.F., Mahoor, M.H., Mavadati, S.M., Hammal, Z., & Rosenwald, D.P. (2014). Nonverbal social withdrawal in depression: Evidence from manual and automatic analyses. Image and Vision Computing, 32(10), 641–647.